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Program::
Air date:
Mon, 03/21/2016 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Working class, Racism, Investment Capitalism, Gentrification, TPP, Oregon Fair Trade
- Bill Resnick interviews with Jack Metzgar about his latest article "Misrepresenting the White Working Class: What the Narrating Class Gets Wrong." Jack Metzgar teaches and writes. In this piece he explores the politics of the working class. The Trump vote today is attributed to working class backwardness and racism; but in fact, Trump does better with college grads and the rich than he does with working people.
- Joe Clement reads from Andrew Sayer's 2015 book, "We Can't Afford the Rich"*, this excerpt offers a politically conscious interpretation of the term "investment" in everyday discussions of economic matters. Sayers distinguishes between "object-focused" investment, which actually aims at the production of useful goods and services, and financialized "investor-focused" definitions of investment that are about extracting money.
- Mara Zusman Reads from Sara Schulman’s 2012 book The Gentrification of the Mind.
- Bill Resnick Talks with Michael Shannon of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign. With both the Donald and Bernie gaining considerable success attacking U.S. trade policy, is the TPP (Trans Pacific Trade Pact) in jeopardy? An invitation for the fair trade movement to promote its alternative?
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